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Notes 
Notes for Part L, Section 4. 
1 See this volume, p. 122, for note relating to Gonzalo López. 
2 Luis Ponce de León was the judge sent to conduct the residencia of Cortés. He 
arrived in Mexico in July, 1526. See Introduction, this vol., p. 8. 
3 Reference is evidently to the first Audiencia of New Spain, of which Ñuño de 
Guzmán was president. See Introduction, p. 9. 
4 Reference is here made to the New Laws of 1542. See p. 27. 
5 Used for covers for camp wagons and probably made of Indian cloth or grass.— 
N. V. S. 
6 Reference is made to the Mixton War of 1540 [see pp. 43, 87]. Viceroy Mendoza went 
in person to suppress the uprising of the natives. 
7 Reference is made to the Lord’s intention to destroy Sodom in case a certain 
number of righteous should not be found there. See Genesis, xviii. 20-23. 
8 Apparently a miscopy for “ Pérez ”.—C. W. H.—On back of sheet: “ Opinion 
given by Doctor Hernán Pérez of the Council of the Indies on the matter of their 
perpetuity in the year 1545.”—F. R. B. 
9 Popayán is in the southern part of modern Colombia. Ini 1566 it was administered 
by a local governor who was subject to the president and audiencia of Bogotá (Moses, 
op. cit., I. 108, 278.) 
10 The queen, Mariana of Austria, widow of Philip IV., and regent for Charles II. 
11 Don Gastón de Peralta was viceroy from 1566 until 1568; the name and date as 
given above apparently are miscopies. 
12 A batan is a fulling-mill where cloth is fulled, or cleaned, as from oil and grease. 
13 Evidently a miscopy for 1567; see note 11 above. 
